SoftNAS^® on Microsoft Azure

Build your next great solution on Azure with SoftNAS performance and cost savings data management

SoftNAS^® on Microsoft Azure

Build your next great solution on Azure with SoftNAS performance and cost savings data management

Why SoftNAS on Azure?

SoftNAS offers Azure customers an enterprise ready NAS capable of managing your fast-growing data storage challenges. Dedicated features from SoftNAS deliver significant cost savings, high availability, lift and shift data migration, and a variety of security protection.

SoftNAS has proven itself over the past 7 years on the Azure platform.

A modern approach to cloud NAS in the Azure Marketplace

Microsoft’s Christine Alford talks about how the modern, cloud-native Buurst SoftNAS addressed requirements for one customer.

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Expand Azure Storage Efficiency with SoftNAS

SoftNAS provides enterprise-level cloud NAS featuring data performance, security, high availability (HA), and support for the most extensive set of storage protocols in the industry: NFS, CIFS/SMB-AD, iSCSI.

Cost Management

Save 30-80% by reducing amount of data to store

Enable Block Storage
Data Deduplication & Compression
SmartTiers (Fast to Slow Block Storage)

Performance

Increase data performance without expanding storage required

Multiple Storage Types
Striping Disks
Private Storage

Control & Security

Supporting major protocols including iSCSI, CIFs/SMB, and NFS

Snapshots and Rollbacks
2-Factor Authentication
Large-scale Windows Filer & NFS Server

SoftNAS designed to support a variety of market verticals, use cases, and workload types. Increasingly, SoftNAS deployed on the Azure platform to enable block and file storage services through Common Internet File System (CIFS), NFS, AFP, and iSCSI.

SoftNAS is a software-defined NAS delivered as a virtual appliance running within Azure Computing Service. It provides NAS capabilities suitable for the enterprise, including high availability utilizing Azure availability sets with automatic failover in the Azure cloud. SoftNAS runs within your Microsoft Azure account, offers business-critical data protection required for non-stop operation of applications, websites, and IT infrastructure.